Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!

Found on a blog. Very useful tips to prevent assault.
 

Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!


1. Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior.
2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
4. NEVER open an unlocked door or window uninvited.
5. If you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, DON’T ASSAULT THEM!
6. Remember, people go to laundry to do their laundry, do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.
7. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! If you are not able to stop yourself from assaulting people, ask a friend to stay with you while you are in public.
8. Always be honest with people! Don’t pretend to be a caring friend in order to gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consider telling them you plan to assault them. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the other person may take that as a sign that you do not plan to rape them.
9. Don’t forget: you can’t have sex with someone unless they are awake!
10. Carry a whistle! If you are worried you might assault someone “on accident” you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can blow it if you do.
And, ALWAYS REMEMBER: if you didn’t ask permission and then respect the answer the first time, you are commiting a crime — no matter how “into it” others appear to be.

More parent's room reviews

This one is from Myer in Bankstown. Overall it's quite a good room and I tend to visit here rather than the one that is part of Bankstown Centro.
It features pretty much all mod cons. If you look to your right you will see a sink.

The wall pictures are quite good even if Dora's foot appears to be coming out of her stomach.
If we are out for more than a couple of hours I will bring Trogdor here to crawl around on the carpet and play with the blue thingy on the wall. Honestly, I don't know how clean the carpet is but I trust each time he plays here his immune system gets that little bit stronger.

I'm not sure I see the point of having so many bins to so few change mats. It seems like they are prepared to not have the bins cleaned out all that often. On the other hand it's only rarely that the room smells like too many nappies.

A microwave. I assume it works.

The 'private' feeding room. This room seats two people and does not lock. It has another blue play station thing attached to the wall for older children while baby is having a feed. Honestly, the chairs are not the best for feeding. They are not particularly comfortable and once you have a bigger baby (or a humongous baby in the case of Troggers) you spend the feed trying to support their head off the hard, uncomfortable arm rests while your hand gets squished against the hard, uncomfortable arm rest. The Thomas picture has been both a blessing and a curse for me. Little one was fascinated with it from the first time he saw it but it also distracted him from booba. So after we went in we had to spend five minutes standing in front of Thomas while Troggers patted and cooed to him and then we could settle down to our feed but ONLY if Thomas was either a) totally out of Trogger's line of sight or b) directly in front of him. If he was there but obscured Trogdor would keep pulling off to get a better view. There are chairs available in the change/play room as well.

The toilets. The room is quite large and you could easily bring both a pram and a shopping trolley in with you if you needed to.

High chairs in the changing/play room with another Thomas.
















And there you have it. My second review.

Happy Birthday Trogdor!

Today little boy turned one. The family is now in a sugar induced haze in front of the TV - all except little boy who has very sensibly decided to pass out in his cot. A few notes of the happy event.

a) Rather than the picnic we had originally planned, family and friends crowded in to our little apartment to escape the rain outside.
b) Troggers scored some excellent pressies which Spidermonkey and I he will love playing with.
c) In line with family tradition we totally over catered and will be eating left over chicken/salad/slices until Christmas.
d) Mum made possibly the best hippopotamus cake in the history of the world that wasn't actually made from hippopotamus.

e) Little boy had his first tiny bite of cake. Which he spat out. He prefers watermelon.
f) Little boy was surrounded by many of the people I hope will be there for his party next year, and the year after that. People I hope he will know and love as he grows up.
g) Trogger's cousin and Babydonk were there. It was amazing having 3 babies in the house - all feeding, crying, laughing, playing and sleeping at various times. We had 11 adults in the house and it still didn't feel like we had enough hands. Much kudos to parents of multiples!

It was a bitter sweet day. Thinking back to what I was doing a year ago (sad and happy thoughts). Imagining forward to what we will be doing in a years time (exciting, scary and happy thoughts).

There are a few things that you are told you will never understand until you become a parent. The first is that you won't know your capacity to love until you have a child. The second is you won't  know how tired, frustrated and clueless you will feel after you have a child. The third is how quickly they seem to grow up. Every one is right by the way. Especially about the growing up thing.


I mean seriously, how do you go from this -

To this -

in a year?